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A wildfire spread to five acres in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area and Worthington State Forest, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service reported Tuesday afternoon. The fire was burning in the area of Old Mine Road Tuesday and was visible from Interstate 80, the agencysaid in a Facebook post. The wildfire was not caused by a prescribed burn about a mile away earlier in the day, according to the post. “The prescribed burn was immediately ceased to allow Forest Fire Service resources to respond rapidly to the nearby Old Mine Wildfire,” the agency said. “The fire originated on Nation…

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